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Social Briefing #6: How to Make Yourself More Approachable
Social Briefings are short bi-monthly dispatches that offer practical tips to improve your social skills. ...
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The 3 Keys to Balancing Safety and Risk in Raising Your Kids
In this series on overprotective parents, we’ve taken a nuanced look at the phenomenon’s origins, ...
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The Risks of NOT Letting Your Kids Do Risky Things
In the last installment of this series on the causes and effects of the modern trend towards ...
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Podcast #294: Learning the Art of Charm
While men sometimes see developing their social skills as something superficial or unimportant, these ...
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Is the World a More Dangerous Place for Kids Than It Used to Be?
Today’s parents are empirically less likely to allow kids to explore their neighborhood alone, walk to ...
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The Origins of Overprotective Parenting
Back when I was six years old, the neighborhood I lived in provided the perfect backdrop for an active and ...
Full article Social Briefing #5: What to Do at an Event Where You Don’t Know Anyone
Social Briefings are short bi-monthly dispatches that offer practical tips to improve your social skills. ...
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Podcast #288: Love is Overrated
Do you find yourself making the same mistakes over and over again in your relationships? For ...
Full article Social Briefing #4: Your 4 Social Gifts
Social Briefings are short bi-monthly dispatches that offer practical tips to improve your social skills. ...
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The Best Ways to Fund Your Relationship Bank Account
Last month, we unpacked some of the myths of what makes for a happy long-term relationship -- a lack of ...
Full article Social Briefing #3: The 4 Social Mindsets – 3 That Derail You, and the 1 That Leads to Success
Social Briefings are short bi-monthly dispatches that offer practical tips to improve your social skills. ...
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Podcast #278: The Surprising Benefits of Marriage for Men
For many modern men, marriage is seen as an institution that, at best, stifles them or, at worst, sets ...
Full article Social Briefing #2: Do Others See You Differently Than You See Yourself?
Social Briefings are short bi-monthly dispatches that offer practical tips to improve your social skills. ...
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Podcast #274: Building Your Band of Brothers
Surveys show that adult men are suffering a friendship crisis. Most adult men don’t have a single ...
Full article Social Briefing #1: Are Your Old Patterns of Social Behavior Still Working for You?
Social Briefings are short bi-monthly dispatches that offer practical tips to improve your social skills. ...
Full article Introducing the Social Briefing
In every age, and every culture around the world, part of achieving manhood required gaining competence in ...
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How to Do Your Genealogy
Last week we discussed why every man should delve into his genealogy, arguing that doing this kind of ...
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Memory is Moral: Why Every Man Should Do His Genealogy
Up until the 20th century, a man’s roots -- his ancestry -- formed an important part of his identity. ...
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Carry the Fire
We’re going to be okay, arent we Papa? Yes. We are. And nothing bad is going to happen to ...
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Why Your Kids Need Their Grandparents (And Grandparents Need Their Grandkids)
This year, both Kate and I lost our last, and most beloved grandparents -- Kate, a grandmother who she ...
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